Floodwaters are seen in the Depot Hill district of Rockhampton, Australia. Floods that have cut air, rail and road links to an Australian coastal city are now threatening its sewage plant, and waters are still expected to rise another few feet. Thunderstorms were forecast Thursday to soak the already flooded communities in northeastern Australia, where residents in the path of another rising river... 

Disaster: Properties across central Queensland are inundated by floodwaters. The Fitzroy River was at 8.8 metres - and expected to rise to nine metres Woman, 41, drowns trying to drive across flooded road as natural disaster in Australia reaches ‘biblical proportions’. Australia’s disastrous floods have claimed their first fatality. A 41-year-old woman died after she tried to cross...